Britain’s intellectual property laws are to be reviewed to “make them fit for the internet age,” Prime Minister David Cameron has announced.
He said the law could be relaxed to allow greater use of copyright material without the owner’s permission.
The announcement was welcomed by internet campaigners who say it will boost small business.
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Innocent people could be blocked from going on to the internet by the Digital Economy Bill
The bill, which aims to clamp down on illegal file-sharing but many fear that owners of internet cafes, students in shared accommodation and parents will be punished for the alleged abuse of others.
If a copyright holder, such as a record company, believes someone is illegally downloading music, films or games they can approach the person’s internet service provider.
If the infringement continues their internet connection could be blocked.
However, there may be no recourse for innocent web users who share internet connections with offenders.
Websites which are repeatedly found flouting copyright law can also be blocked by the government.
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The UK military should learn from the Israeli armed forces and use social networking sites such as Twitter to win public opinion, says the head of the Royal Air Force.
According the Head, the exponential growth in the availability of information means that we must understand how to deliver and protect our national interests in the cyber domain and, although this is clearly a cross-government issue, defence has a legitimate interest in the development of offensive and defensive cyber-capabilities.
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A British gangster is using internet social networking site Facebook to threaten people who he says he will target after his release.
According to a spokesman for Britain’s Ministry of Justice said that prisoners only had access to the internet “for educational purposes” and were banned from using social networking sites.
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As a global social network, Facebook is designed to bring people together but according to a UK law firm specializing in divorce says nearly one in five cases they are working on involved a person’s activity on Facebook.
The most common reason seemed to be people having inappropriate sexual chats including flirty emails and messages posted on “walls.” with people they were not supposed to.
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According to study in UK Online adspend has overtaken TV for the first time
Email campaigns, classified adverts, display ads and search engine websites such as Google are all included in the online-ad classification.
Of the total online spend, search engines ranked highest and then classified ads. Meanwhile, newspaper display ads were the third biggest.
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Illegal Downloaders and UK Government
People who persist in swapping copyrighted films and music will have their internet connections cut off under tough new laws to be proposed by the government .
The measures also include taking the power to target illegal downloaders away from regulator Ofcom and giving it to ministers to speed up the process.
The decision to cut off peer-to-peer filesharers is unexpected since it was ruled out by the government’s own Digital Britain report in June as going too far.
The government will take the unusual step of proposing much stricter rules midway through the Digital Britain consultation process. Illegal filesharers will still get warning letters but if they continue to swap copyrighted material they could have their internet connection temporarily severed, although it may be possible to retain basic access to online public services.
The music and film industries had campaigned hard to have measures introduced earlier than 2012 and the fact that persistent pirates can be cut off is likely to be welcomed. The UK’s internet service providers, however, will be less pleased by the plans. Several have made it quite plain they have no desire to police the web on behalf of another industry.
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UK-India Education and Research Initiative – mobile banking security measures
City University London has been awarded £135,000 in funding from the government’s UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) for a three year project to develop new mobile banking security measures.
India is one of the world’s fastest growing markets for mobile phones, with 80 million Internet-enabled handset users predicted by the end of 2009.
The funding from UKIERI – which is designed to encourage research links between the UK and India – will help a team of informatics and engineering specialists from the university in their bid to develop security software which generates a personal code or “crypto key” to each user via their existing SIM card.
The university says a feasibility study will now be carried out by Warwick Business School and a cyber criminologist from The University of Leeds Law School will develop the necessary legal framework.
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